Improvement in journal-boxes



A. G. BROWN. JOURNAL BOX.

No.1 13,490. PatentedApr. 11, 1871,

ARTHUR GIBSON BROWN, ,O-FI'WAREHAM, MASSACHUSETTS.

Letters Patent No. mesmerized April 11. 1871.

immovmsm JOURNAL-BOXES.

'Ib Schedule referred to in these Letter! Patentl and making part of the same.

To all persons to whom we presents may come:

Be' it known that I, ARTHUR Gmsox Bnowx, of Wareham, oi. the county oi? Plym'outh -of the State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful 1m provement in I Shalt-Journals'and their Bearin gs or 'Boxes; and I do. hereby deelarethe same to be fully described in the followingspeoificatiou and represented iuthe" acom'panying drawing, of which- Figure 1 is a transverse section, and

Figure 2 a longitudinal section of 'a shaft-journal audits box provided with my invention.

Figure 3 is stop view, and Figure 4 a side elevation of the box Figure 5 is a bottom view',; and Figure 6 a side view of the cap. In'can'yingout the said invention 1 construct the journal A with two grooves, a 1-, extending transversely around it at 'rightangles to "its axis, and I 7 make the box B and its cap 0 with two flanges b 1) cc to extend inward from the opposite ends of their beering surfaces and into the said grooves ,the flanges,

when the cap is on the box and the journal ontheuy going entirely around the said journal, and serve to retain in the box the oil .or its lubrication.

' The cap of the fluid that nay bensed for box also construct with tongues d d, to extend from its bot-torn down into corresponding parallel rebates e 0, made in the box on opposite the cap in place and strain of the journal.

sides of the shafi scat or hearing. r V

The tongues and rebates serve also to keep the oil within the'hox or from being expelled through the joint of the cap and the bo'x, and also answer to keep saveits fastening-halts from The space between the flanges of the box and those of the cap constitute an oil-receiving cavity, which,

forth'e reception of oil,,is provided with a mouth, 1', or holemade at the ceuterot the cap.

I'do not claim the journal A as constructed'with the grooves a a, and the box and cap as provided with the flanges b b o o to enter such grooves; all being arranged as set forth; but

What I do claim as my invention is- The journal as constructed with the groovesa a, and the box and cap as provided with the flanges b lo, 0 c and the tongues d d and rebates e'e, all arranged as specified.

ARTHUR ens son BROWN. Witnesses:

- R. H. EDDY,

" J. R-Ssow. 

